Magnifisyncopathological: Disabled Minds Sue Spaghetti Warehouse

July 27, 2004

Disabled Minds Sue Spaghetti Warehouse

News8Austin: Spaghetti Warehouse, county clerk named in lawsuit

Some disability groups demonstrated outside The Spaghetti Warehouse in Downtown Austin on Monday. They've filed lawsuits against 14 Texas businesses and government offices.

That number corresponds to the 14th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act. The Texas Civil Rights Project said it's suing companies to force them to live up to the law, which makes it mandatory to provide access for the disabled.

Let it not be said these people can't find symbolism in their legal frivolousness.

"We're here at Spaghetti Warehouse because even though they put a ramp in, this landing down there is unusable. People in wheelchairs get stuck. In fact, one person in a wheelchair fell out and was on the ground for 20 minutes before somebody helped her up," Jim Harrington, with the Texas Civil Rights Project, said.

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Keep cracking the whip, Mr. Harrington.

This is the slow strangulation death of property rights in this country and I see no end in sight. They don't care if this means business owners have more paperwork to complete, more regulations to comply with, and more legal fees to spend. They don't care the resources diverted to deal with those things mean fewer resources to conduct business. And they certainly don't care about being the master of your own land.

The advocates of this kind of law want you to bend to their will. Does that sound like something you want? Does it even sound right?

Posted by Drizzten at July 27, 2004 01:35 PM

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